Federal - Lead Developer
Arlington, VA

Job Description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services

Location: Arlington, VA

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It's what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world's leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast-the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our 7,200 dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation's priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

AFS is at the forefront in supporting a federal agency's Verification Modernization to enable the agency to more capably handle new requirements and the volume associated with Immigration Reform and mandatory E-Verify. AFS is seeking a Senior Java Developer for a position to support it's ongoing Verification Information System modernization development effort. Using a light-weight Java framework and Ruby on Rails in a continuous integration environment, you'll join our team of developers building the next-generation of customer engagement systems for federal service agencies.

What you will be doing?

* Work with product owners and team lead to interpret feature requests and develop software in iterative design/build/test cycles using an Agile development process
* Tasked with designing and developing the business's infrastructure architecture as well as developing automated scripts meant for building development and production environments
* Monitoring the business's site/software, ensuring standard compliance.
* Regularly check code into our continuous integration pipeline based on Gradle, Git and Jenkins to incrementally build our overall system and get immediate feedback on build performance
* Develop and expand unit and integration tests which will be automatically run by the build pipeline for developer feedback using JUnit
* Assists in resolving production support problems. Develops and suggests alternative approaches to resolving problems.
* Mentors junior member on the team
* Enforce standards and best practices
* Proactively communicates with the development and management to anticipate configuration management issues/processes
* Proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements to internal team processes
* Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations Agile project lifecycle